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Privacy issues.

Because it advocates archiving of email, Gmail has been causing quite a stir amongst privacy organizations. Current laws say that email is no longer considered private communication after 180 days and can therefore be subpoenaed without needing a judicial warrant. This along with it’s computer scanning and indexing of your emails for targeted ads causes alarms for what they can do with the profile they build about you and how government agencies can force the information from them.

The full essay is here.

Another site. (More extreme views)

I wonder how often people click on links versus wanting to read a synopsis instead.

Too bad.

An article on IQ.

Fastmail, Gmail, Mailsnare

Fastmail:

• Awesome interface, very easy to be productive
• Very fast, even on dialup
• Redirecting email — much better than forwarding: you can redirect mail to any email address and make it look like it came from the original sender other than a different time stamp
• Very good spam management
• Subfolders
• Subfolder addressing: send an email directly to a subfolder. e.g. important@username.fastmail.fm
• Plus addressing: basically the same thing — important+username@fastmail.fm
• File storage
• if you have aliases you can setup different aliases to point to different storage folders
• the ability to password protect folders
• customizable themes through stylesheets
• IMAP access for all account levels
• hosting your own domain’s email and even website using file storage
• create personalities — say you have a work email address that you use POP to pick up. you can send messages that appear to come from said address so you can keep all mail consolidated to fastmail.

negs:

• can only search single folders — I hope they improve on this soon. Like they say, what good is all the info in the world if you can’t find what you’re looking for.

Gmail:

• innovative way of organizing email — seems similar to Opera’s M2 mail scheme where messages aren’t tied to any specific folder but instead to a categorical listing.
• threading
• very powerful and easy to use search — no performance problems searching through message bodies
• decent interface usability — still not as fast as fastmail — more clicks needed to do same tasks

neg:

• can only use latest and greatest browsers due to complex web code
• no imap access

Mailsnare:

• calender
• also has file storage
• integrated rss reader

neg:

• poor mail interface

Plusses of webmail:

• No local virus problems
• Available everywhere
• Especially fastmail because you can use it on any browser unlike Yahoo and especially Gmail which uses very very complicated DHTML

Plusses of paid webmail (Fastmail, Mailsnare) and Gmail:

• no graphic heavy ads to distract and slow down productivity.

Other paid mail providers:

www.oddpost.com
www.fusemail.com - sketchy privacy policy
www.hushmail.com
www.cryptoheaven.com
www.geekmail.com - canadian, good privacy policy
www.mailsnare.com
www.runbox.com

New firesomething browser is out. 0.9 release. Be aware of what extensions you install. I’d do it one at a time and if something goes wrong use the safe mode to uninstall and try again. Note that 0.9 changed the extension layout so you might have to wait for your fav extension to be updated.

Try update.mozilla.org and extensionroom.mozdev.org.

Ones I like:

• Autohide Toolbox
• Dictionary Search
• StatusbarClock
• Popup Count
• Browser Uptime — keep track of how long you’ve been wasting your time on the net
• Tabbrowser Extensions — simply awsome, but you gotta get the settings right

If you’re missing the old theme, search for Qute.

Last bit of funny. JFGI!

I think I need to find some Prime grade rib-eye and some natural wood charcoal. Or maybe a cast iron pan and a hot stove. I can smell the smokiness already. Yum.

Did you know the best beef is dry aged to make it more tender and develop the flavor? Too bad it’s mondo expensive. Fourth of July here we come!

Will probably get overposted and talked about on the net…:-P

Report Cards with “weight” grades.

Initial D Episode 15.

Karting:
http://www.rm1-kart.com
http://www.rmaxchallenge.com
http://www.sscracing.com
http://www.swra.org
http://www.ntkarters.com
http://www.ekartingnews.com